How safe is Serbia?
Officially recorded crime for every region - 25 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.
Across all 25 regions of Serbia, officially recorded crime ranges from about 1.7 per 1,000 residents in Zlatiborska oblast to 9.2 in Juznobacka oblast - about 5 times as high. A typical region sits at around 3.2 per 1,000. The two lists below show the five lowest and the five highest; the interactive map holds the full ranking, and you can zoom past the region level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.
Safest areas in Serbia
- Zlatiborska oblast - 1.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Pcinjska oblast - 1.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Sumadijska oblast - 1.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Raska oblast - 2.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Moravicka oblast - 2.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Serbia
- Juznobacka oblast - 9.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Srednjobanatska oblast - 7.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Severnobacka oblast - 5.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Severnobanatska oblast - 5.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Zajecarska oblast - 5.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within Serbia only.
All 25 statistical regions (oblasti), police-recorded offences (Eurostat) with violence and theft broken out - a selected set of offence types, not the full penal code. Whichever area you land on, the rate is counted per 1,000 residents, so you can weigh a capital city against a quiet town on the same scale - as long as both sit inside Serbia. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the region you are standing in right now.
Open the interactive map of Serbia →